Vice President, Medical Affairs

About this role

Requirements

• Proven experience as a strategic medical affairs leader operating from early development through launch readiness.
• Ability to bring the external medical voice into portfolio decisions and establish scalable capabilities for scientific engagement, evidence generation, medical communications, and medical excellence.
• Experience in areas of significant unmet need, including oncology, rare disease, immunology, and other priority therapeutic areas.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with experience partnering with Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, HEOR/RWE, Biostatistics, and other key functions.
• Expertise in building evidence-generation plans, including real-world evidence, HEOR, epidemiology, natural history, and outcomes-focused studies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead scientific engagement with key opinion leaders, digital opinion leaders, investigators, and patient advocacy organizations.
• Experience planning and executing congress and conference strategies for major scientific meetings such as ASCO, ESMO, AACR, and AAN.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled approaches for medical insights, evidence synthesis, stakeholder mapping, and scientific communication.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead integrated Medical Affairs strategies for priority assets, including scientific narrative, evidence gaps, stakeholder engagement, publication strategy, medical education, advisory boards, field medical planning, and launch readiness.
• Provide Medical Affairs support on cross-functional asset teams, partnering with Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Development Sciences, HEOR/RWE, Biostatistics, Clinical Operations, Portfolio Strategy, Patient Advocacy, Communications, Legal/Compliance, and Business Development.
• Build evidence-generation plans that support asset differentiation, patient benefit, clinical adoption, and value demonstration, including real-world evidence, HEOR, epidemiology, natural history, burden of disease, treatment patterns, and outcomes-focused studies.
• Translate external insights from healthcare professionals, investigators, patient communities, payers, health systems, and scientific leaders into actionable recommendations for development strategy, trial design, endpoints, education needs, and evidence priorities.
• Lead scientific engagement strategy with key opinion leaders, digital opinion leaders, investigators, cooperative groups, patient advocacy organizations, professional societies, and other external stakeholders through compliant, high-quality scientific exchange.
• Lead congress and conference strategy for priority programs, including planning and execution for major scientific meetings such as ASCO, ESMO, AACR, AAN, and other relevant medical congresses.
• Establish the medical communication strategy for assigned assets, including publications, congress abstracts and presentations, lexicon, scientific platform, FAQs, medical information content, and internal scientific training.
• Design and build a structured, scalable Medical Affairs organization, including fit-for-purpose capabilities across medical strategy, field medical, medical communications, medical information, evidence generation, congress planning, insights, and medical excellence.

Benefits

• Opportunity to shape how Recursion translates breakthrough science, clinical data, real-world evidence, and AI-enabled insights into meaningful impact for patients.
• High-impact, cross-functional leadership role with significant influence on portfolio decisions and launch readiness.
• Collaboration with Recursion’s data science, platform, and Decision Science teams to explore responsible use of AI-enabled approaches.
• Chance to design and build a structured, scalable Medical Affairs organization from the ground up.